Who Profits From Full Body Scans? Where Will They Be Next? – Updated

By now you’ve probably heard about the porno body scanners now used in airports around the country as a screening method. The government says they are here to stay, and to get used to the groping by TSA agents, too. I mentioned a few instances yesterday.

I’ve been meaning to get to who is profiting from these full body scanners. Right Klik beat me to it. The TSA has contracted with Rapiscan Security Systems, which is a subsidiary of OSI Systems, Inc. Rapiscan has spent a fortune on lobbying in recent years, and Right Klik shows that the lobbying dollars were a very good investment for the company. And of course, some of Rapiscan’s lobbyists are well connected.

“Rapiscan’s lobbyists include Susan Carr, a former senior legislative aide to Rep. David Price, D-N.C., chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee. When Defense Daily reported on Price’s appropriations bill last winter, the publication noted “Price likes the budget for its emphasis on filling gaps in aviation security, in particular the whole body imaging systems.”

As for the company’s other political connections, it also appears that none other than George Soros, the billionaire funder of the country’s liberal political infrastructure, owns 11,300 shares of OSI Systems Inc., the company that owns Rapiscan. Not surprisingly, OSI’s stock has appreciated considerably over the course of the year. Soros certainly is a savvy investor.

That’s not all. While doing my search I came across an interesting article in Canada Free Press that gives a pretty good history of Rapiscan, and how the naked body scanners weren’t used very much until after the attempted underwear bombing on Christmas day in 2009. Shortly after the incident, Michael Chertoff took to the airwaves to shill for the scanners. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here’s what I found most interesting.

What has yet to be publicly disclosed is, in my professional opinion, most alarming.

Based on the instructions from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a directive was reportedly issued by the TSA on 29 October, 2010. That directive instructs all TSA screening agents to perform “enhanced” pat down searches that involve the actual groping of women’s breasts and the genitalia of all passengers, including children.

Upon learning of that directive, I conducted an interview with a trusted source working within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on 12 November, 2010. According to the information obtained during that interview, the enhanced pat down directive was not in response to any intelligence or actionable threat. Instead, it was issued as a result of the number of airline passengers “opting out” of the body scans. The reasoning was that passengers would be more likely to select the more passive and less invasive of the two options. In other words, the directive was meant to “convince” people to choose the (ostensibly) less personal and humiliating scrutiny of a full body scanner instead of being groped by a TSA agent.

One might wonder why one option over the other would matter so much to the Department of Homeland Security. The answer might possibly be found in DHS documents described as “conceptual discussions” about trial deployments of the full body scanners to non-aviation public locations, such as sports stadiums, schools and malls. It appears that it is the intent of DHS to eventually install naked body scanners in these venues. But first, the public must be “conditioned” to accept their use at airports.

Meanwhile, Big Brother will stop groping you, your wife and kiddies as soon as their full body scanners are planted in your local schools, stadiums and malls.

Is that a conspiracy theory? Could be, but it sounds pretty plausible to me. I can tell you, after reading and hearing about the groping by TSA agents, I’ve thought that if I have to fly I’ll probably go with the scan over the grope. At least with the scan some stranger isn’t touching me. But I still don’t know if it will work. We’ve gotten used to quite a bit, but this might just be taking things a bit too far. Not since 9/11 have I seen Americans so united, only this time we’re united against this gross overreach by the government. Taking off our shoes and emptying our pockets is one thing, having our very persons violated quite literally by the hands of government agents is quite another.

Update 2: Oh this is rich. CAIR is asking for an exemption for hijab wearing Muslim women. They want them exempted from the full body scan, and only want the pat down above the neck. In the alternative, they suggest the women pat themselves down.

“I’ve thought that if I have to fly I’ll probably go with the scan over the grope”

And because people like you don’t have the balls to say no to this unconstitutional invasion, you help pave the way for them to pop up at other public loactions. Rights….use ‘em or lose ‘em. We will only be american if we act like americans and just say NO! And mean it.

Obviously, you’re not a regular reader of this blog. If so you’d know I refuse to fly anywhere as long as submitting to these screening methods is a condition of boarding a plane. That being said, there could come a time that I have to fly somewhere – be it a family emergency or work related travel. In such an instance I can say no until I’m blue in the face but I won’t be allowed onto a plane.

They do it because they love torturing and humiliating people and because, for them, grabbing at stranger’s genitals is the closest any will come to having sex.

All TSA agents are subhuman freaks who live in a state of deranged dysohoria and quaking self-hatred. Yes, they know they are witless, contemptible, unemployable scum. Yes, they will never be able to enjoy the homosexual sex they crave.

So they take it out on the world, lunging at the testicles the TSA men long to caress and stroking the quivering breasts the TSA bull dykes hunger to suckle.

The TSA is a criminally insane cult of self-hating homosexual psychopaths bent on savaging the lives of everyone in America who would not regard them as human beings or have sex with them.

If they touch any adult, they do it to inflict maximal humiliation and penetration of personal space. They get off on repulsing you while you are helpless. They love groping mens’ wives while the men smolder in helpless rage. In this scenario, they are raping BOTH man and wife. Yeah, right, does anyone think that any freaks capable of this kind of horror should be at large – much less collecting a wage paid for by the tax payers they victimize?

If they touch any child, it is a pederast thrill.

If they touch any elderly or disabled person, it is to terrorize and humiliate the helpless, yes, real torture inflicted as revenge against a society that regards them rightfully as witless, slack-jawed freaks worthy only of cleaning toilets with their tongues.

A great post summarizing the players behind these scanners. I would also note that the Underwear bomber, which was the pretext for these things (they were ordered en mass the very next week with the Recovery Act money) was on the plane with the full knowledge of the state department. Eyewitnesses said he didn’t seem to be “all there” and he was accompanied by a professional looking agent. That’s why I’m suspicious of the recent ink jet cartridge stories, because a lot of people’s stories don’t line up. Oh by the way, Rapiscan sells a handsome line of cargo scanners, call Mr. Chertoff to hook you up.

I would go for the grope, as those scanners are putting out as much radiation as 10 catscans – at least I won’t get a tumor from it 10 years from now.

It won’t be long before you’ll see airport bars with large screen TVs with the TSA scanner images on them! Can’t you just her it now? “Hey Bob, quick, get a look at this chick”! Talk about who will profit from the scanners!